Lugar needs a primary challenge. He's nothing but a thoughtful, conscientious, hard-working, honest, ethical, old-fashioned conservative Republican, who stands between the tea party and its goal of a pure, anti-intellectual, all-reactionary GOP.

Dump him.

11:30 pm June 27, 2011

Democratic Hoosier wrote:

A thoughtful and wise elder statesman. Leave well enough alone.

12:27 am June 28, 2011

You Don't Need a Real Estate Agent wrote:

Selling your home is similar to most any business enterprise in that if you’re not getting the revenue you have to cut your costs. The real estate agent’s commission is the largest cost incurred when selling your home. You CAN do it on your own, and my six percent can help. We’ll walk you through the process step by step and not charge you a penny to do so. We’re Free, We’re organized, and We’re intuitive.

I don't consider him a conservative when he voted for the Dream Act, voted for Kagan for the Supreme Court and wanted to stick with earmarks! He reminds me a lot of Lindsay Graham and John McCain.

1:16 am June 29, 2011

Reallly? wrote:

FreedomWorks helped launch the Tea Party? Really? Our tea party was 6 months strong before we attended the 9/12 March on DC in 2009....which was hosted by many other groups along with FreedomWorks. They do seem to work for conservative causes, but FreedomWorks has never given one dime of their money or helped our organization in anyway.

4:04 am June 29, 2011

old man with a torn ligament wrote:

if lugar isn't conservative enough for you, then you're not interested in politics or government; you're interested in a new, bizarre, and heretical religion or cult.

1:32 pm June 29, 2011

Ken in IN wrote:

Sen. Lugar has sent me thoughtful and sensible replies on everything I've written him on, more so than any other senators or my representative, even when, as in the case of earmarks, he didn't agree. On the important stuff like the Affordable Care Act and the financial condition of the country, he expressed conservative opinions very close to my own. It seems to me that we don't have enough Lugars, McCains, and Grahams

11:24 pm June 29, 2011

You Don't Need a Real Estate Agent wrote:

Selling your home is similar to most any business enterprise in that if you're not getting the revenue you have to cut your costs. The real estate agent's commission is the largest cost incurred when selling your home. You CAN do it on your own, and my six percent can help. We'll walk you through the process step by step and not charge you a penny to do so. We're Free, We're organized, and We're intuitive.

Your share of the national debt in 1976 (Mr. Lugar enters the senate), below $3K, Today, over $45K. Sure, lets give him another 6 years. He had a 76% conservative rating. He falls lock step with the confirmation process in the senate with the dems. He never stands alone.
Richard Mourdock filed the Chrysler lawsuit to get GUARANTEED investors their money back. He will stand alone, and he will challenge the status quo.

5:17 pm July 2, 2011

GenerallyConcerned wrote:

FreedomWorks appears to be run by professional politicians looking for others like them who want to use folks' anger against reasonable men in office--so that they can raise more money and keep Republicans from ever getting and keeping a majority, in the Senate and the country. Mourdock ain't no rookie, he's just an opportunist. Pretty hard to change the status quo with guys like that.

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